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I am using textpos to control the position of text in a beamer frame.
What I want to do, is to place some text on top of an image.
I am using the package in absolute mode and I want to place the text ...

I have some paragraphs in my thesis, that will stay in there until just before it is finished. They should be marked as non-important to my supervisor. Then I'd like to remove those paragraphs all at ...

I'd like to turn all all-uppercase words, acronyms etc. into small caps, preferably automatically on the fly and without changing the source files. The ideal solution would also allow me to block some ...

There are some other questions on this side addressing related issues, but I haven't found any which cover exactly my issue.
I have a text (converted from XML) which uses the apostrophe ' with three ...

Let's say you have a few pages worth of text then numbers, ie name address phone number.
Example :
Name address 0123 4444 name address 0987 6754 name address 5674 5643 etc
How can one create a rule ...

I'm new to LaTeX and am searching for a function that acts like \underbrace or \widehat but is circular (I don't want the pointed middle part). Does such a function exist? I tried using Detexify but I ...

I've seen workarounds for having the spaces recognized within \ExplSyntaxOn... \ExplSyntaxOff. But I wonder why spaces are unrecognized even for (LaTeX3) macros arguments undoubtedly expecting text, ...

I simply need to truncate a text string, which is just a sequence of characters without whitespace, therefore the linebreak won't work. I just need to decide the length of the string in centimeter, ...

I've four probable sentences in CSV file.
Ex: sentence 1 here , one more sentence, one more sentence added, last sentence.
In Latex; I want to print 1 if "sentence 1 here" is present. Something like ...

In a LaTeX report I'm working on, I have used \part{title of part} to organise the chapters into parts.
This gives me distinct pages for each \part specified which is what I want. But if I try to add ...

I have some equations into the aligning environment and i want below them to write something. But in the same time also want those to be aligned. In particular Imagine that I want or i could do this
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I have a text and then a bunch of figures. I would like to fill A page with all the figures so the text would continue AFTER this page. In other words I would need something like this :
Page 1 : text
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I wonder if there is any automatic approach to detect hanging text all throughout the 200-page thesis, mostly due to hyphenation issues.
Consider the output below, there is like a subtle hanging text ...

I created the following picture with Inkspace and made export to tikz. The problem is that the text doesn't fit the boxes. And the arrows should be colored with a gradient, but it's not so important. ...

I want to take text and wrap it around as the border of a figure. That is, text on the top, wrapping to sideways text running down the right, wrapping to upside down text on the bottom, wrapping to ...

Is there a possibility to shear (any) LaTeX text or the output of a mathematical formula as it would be obtained as a result from looking at a different angle/viewport?
I do not mean mere rotating of ...

I would like to know how to use the \left and \right options in the text environment.
This is what I am trying to do:
\left( when factorizing $e^{-2000t}$\right)
As you can see, I am trying to make ...

I make a custom shape and I need to put a text inside it. But problem is that my text didn't fit the length of decorated path. So, I need a way to automatically divide text between two or three paths.
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In one of the doctoral thesis howto books (Rugg and Petrie, I think) the advice given is to prepare a document that summarises one page of your thesis per line of page. I'm interested in working with ...

I have a little issue.
I have a figure made by 5 subifgures. They fill perfectly a page.
The problem is that, when I have some lines of text before the image, the figure goes to the next page without ...

I have a tex file which compiles fine and generates PDF without any problem. I need to include text (contents of a text file) from another .txt file at the end of tex file so that generated PDF would ...

I want to use text under an equation. I am using the \underbrace_{text{}}. My point is that the text is quite long and I want to make it into two lines. For example:
\begin{document}
\begin{equation}
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